The best books of 2017: the 15 best books for kids

Freya Daly Sadgrove, a bookseller at The Children’s Bookshop in Wellington, chooses the very best picture books, chapter books and YA novels of 2017. PICTURE BOOKS THE BEST: I Just Ate My Friend by Heidi McKinnon (Allen & Unwin, $27.99) I’ve seen a bunch of picture books featuring monsters this year, and the trend seems … Read more

The Friday Poem: ‘Georgie Porgie’ by Freya Daly Sadgrove

New verse by Wellington writer Freya Sadgrove.   Georgie Porgie I wanna kiss you and make you cry         obviously I find you dangerously unsentimental     in fact I worry that you might be harbouring a small violence in your daily life such as     such as muttering insults at the elderly or writing scathing reviews of high … Read more